Medicare overpaid providers $640,452 for chronic care management (CCM) services and may have overpaid outpatient facilities an additional $1.2 million for CCM, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released November 7.
Expanded price transparency requirements are set to become reality for hospitals effective January 1, 2021. On November 15, CMS released a final rule that pushed ahead with many of the requirements originally included in the 2020 OPPS proposed rule.
Q: When a diabetic patient has arteriosclerotic peripheral artery disease (PAD), should an additional ICD-10-CM code be assigned from subcategory I70.2- (atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities) to describe the affected vessel and laterality?
This week's note from the instructor explores considerations chargemaster coordinators should make regarding routine services in general medical/surgical units, specialty/intensive care units, and incidental nursing or bedside procedure charges.
